MOVE DOS ACCPAC FROM E: to C:

[Curler]

Customer stopped using a DOS version (6. something) of Accpac back in 2001 but continues to look up old purchasing records. That NT server has been left running for 10 years to hold those records and is due for retirement. All Accpac disks seem to be long gone.

Copied everything to an XP station, started it up with the server running and mapped the data files to use C: instead of the E: that had been used. The software looks at the data on the C: drive but if I shut down Accpac, turn off the NT server to lose my E: drive and try to restart, it won't. There must be something that either tells it to look at the E: drive or I have missed something.

I see in this forum a reference to hidden files. If I copy them from the old server to the folder where I start PLUS.EXE am I out of the woods or is there something else I need?

 

[Jay Converse]

1. Yes, there are hidden files to copy
2. PLUS.EXE must be at the root of the drive. What most of use do is make a folder like C:\ACCPACDOS, copy all the files in there, then start it with a batch file like this:

SUBST E: C:\ACCPACDOS
E:
PLUS

 

[DjangMan]

You also need to make sure that opportunistic locking is turned off on your workstation and any other workstation that is working on plus or you will have data corruption.